Saturday, December 27, 2014

American Sniper

Director Clint Eastwood’s American Sniperis a
riveting war drama about a real-life American hero, Chris Kyle, who was
credited with over 160 “kills.”

Now, that may sound horrible to some, but, in doing so,
he saved countless lives.And, Kyle’s
driving force was that he was protecting his fellow soldiers and Country and only
felt bad that he couldn’t save more soldiers.And, that drive almost destroyed him.

Kyle served four tours of 250 days each, risking not only
his life, but his marriage, as well.It
was only after he removed what he felt was the biggest threat to his fellow
soldiers, that he was able to realize he had had enough.

Then, the real battle of re-finding himself began.

Working from the book by Kyle, Scott McEwen and James
Defelice and Screen Writer Jason Hall’s screenplay, Eastwood keeps a tension
building even for those who might know Kyle’s story.I didn’t and was glad for that.It made the tension even greater.

Bradley Cooper is fabulous as Kyle and Sienna Miller
keeps getting better and better as she follows up her excellent performance in Foxcatcher
with her work, here.

If you like war stories and, even if you’ve recently seen
Fury,
don’t miss this one.

About Me

Brian Porzak: I am a cinephile who likes to view films with a live audience. My taste runs the gamut, including indies, studio films, foreign films and most all genres. Because I see so many films, friends often ask me what to see. So, I thought I'd blog about what is worth seeing or not. As a writer/filmmaker myself, I hope to give a more uplifting perspective than the typical critic. Filmmaking is tremendously difficult. Just because some problems might exist in a particular work does not, necessarily, destroy its enjoyability and I think that is necessary to point out to would-be viewers.
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